Andy Matter

The wrong David Axelrod died.

I saw the post making the rounds about learning to cope with “an increasingly illiterate and emotionally dysregulated people,” and I was thrilled to learn the sole good that has come from my living in Kentucky all my life.

It’s not James Hatfield’s fault that Metallica is like that. He told a hairstylist in 1996, “Make us like Bush,” but the hairstylist must have gotten carried away.

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It’s a shame that Jerry Lewis doesn’t want his prescient movie about Bill Maher’s career arc to ever be seen.

Guy whose band lifted part of West Side Story’s “America” for a song called “Don’t Tread On Me” before taking their fans to court before Congress: “Uhhhhhhhh, we don’t really do politics, guys.”

Give it up for John Stamos replacing Charles Manson as the most cruel person connected to the Beach Boys.

Anyone saying “We are Charlie Kirk” who isn’t dead is just Eric Deters.

I wonder what these districts’ coaches get paid?

They took the arcade machine no one used out of our office yesterday, when, you could say, in a way, the 2010s died.

Good to see a guy who decided to make a “song” about how mean the press was for reporting on the child he had brought to his house OD-ing before he could rape her is a good guy again because he gave a politician money.

I heard Choosin’ Texas for the first time last night. I don’t know how to put this more gently. Are today’s white kids getting *whiter*?

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

Do you think there were non-Nazi Germans accused by their countrymen of what we’d now call virtue signaling? “Oh, you’re gonna act like you’re SO much better than everyone who worked hard to build that camp!”

Today’s a good day to learn my old college roommate, whom I know has never listened to my music, really likes the fast food commercial disguised as a playlist.

Now’s a good time to remember how in 2016 Hillary Clinton had Harvey Weinstein appear on MSNBC to discuss what a sicko Bernie Sanders was to women.

Coming soon: YOUR LABEL’S A PAYDAY LENDOR YOUR SCENE’S AN MLM WITH NEW HAT

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I may be too optimistic, but being the Ellisons’ kind of Democrat should be enough to tank the Beshear presidential campaign before it takes off.

The Aggies can still beat UK if Charlie Barker does the right thing.

17 years ago today, I played a show at Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge to no one, not even my girlfriend at the time. I know we throw around the term “villain origin story” quite a bit, but..

Everyone made the same joke on the Duncan Sheik news! I haven’t seen the likes of it since that guy from Drowning Pool died.

Love getting told off about how the music biz and the world really work by someone who makes a living teaching dentists’ children how to play Everlong.

Eight of the Louder Than Life headlining acts were popular 30 years ago. The baby boomers tell me the wealth will start trickling down any day now.

Police Ability City

I just learned famous rich child Stella Lefty is playing Bed Bourbon and Beyond. Keep Louisville Weird, everybody.

Ed Sheeran’s new single “Sure, I Woulda Played Sun City, But I’m Not Complicit”

“We’ve never met before, have we?”

On this day 25 years ago, conservatives swore to stop pronouncing New York with a J.

I was wondering why I was seeing so much national media coverage about a Massachusetts murder case. When I saw it attached to someone saying, “Repeal the 19th,” it clicked for me.

Graduating high school in Kentucky means a lifetime of being disappointed in how the rest of the state votes. Part whatever in a seemingly infinite series.

So who’s offered Seth Moulton a job to say, “The left’s gone too far again” already?

I sure do hate that a regional story has made national news for seemingly no reason other than “Doesn’t this woman look mean on the TV?”

For a fleeting moment of my childhood, my mother, Wendell Berry, and I shared the same barber: a woman up the road who ran a salon in a room in the back of her house. RIP to the best Henry County ever made.

Today begins the Kentucky Don’t Turn Wendell Berry’s Home Into a Data Center Challenge.

No withdrawals from venture capitalists’ coffers were made in the creation of this album.

If you listened to a fake country album by a two-time fake athlete recently, you owe it to yourself to cleanse your brain with my newest release. Always free, always will be. andymatter.bandcamp.com/album/your-l...

Has anyone deliberately missed the point more obviously than a Rage Against the Machine cover band?

YOUR LABEL’S A PAYDAY LENDOR. YOUR SCENE’S AN MLM. ON BANDCAMP NOW andymatter.bandcamp.com/album/your-l...

I was bored today and aired grievance. Forgive me.

I’m definitely not going to claim that an album I released yesterday titled YOUR LABEL’S A PAYDAY LENDOR. YOUR SCENE’S AN MLM. is making any sort of a similar statement!

If we can’t trust the woman who was responsible for the wellbeing of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit et al. with the wellbeing of our children…

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I’m sorry. The FBI raided my favorite BBQ place, and I haven’t been the same since.

HERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND

“I saw my book sales and decided cable news talking head for the weekday afternoon shift isn’t a bad gig.”